Button



June 25, 1929.

G. FRANK BUTTON Filed April 28 1928 nn nluunu Patented June 25, 1929.

GEORG- FRANK, 013 HAMBURG, GERMANY.

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Application filed April 28, 1928, Serial No. 2735M, and in Germany May 3, 1927.

Buttons have become known which have straight fixation-pins designed to be pierced through the cloth and then to be bent at right angles and to be secured in their position by a safety-device. These buttons present the inconvenience that, for interchanging the button, the pins must be repeatedly bent back into the original straight position and then bent again at right angles so that they become soon unlit for use.

In opposition hereto the pins on the button according to the invention are of angular shape and they are fixed on the button so that either one or both pins are rotatable around the axis of the inner arm. The button is fixed in the cloth when both pins are turned in the same direction i. e. standing parallel the one to the other.

If the pins are in this position they can both be simultaneously stuck through the cloth, whereupon one of the pins is turned so that its free arm extends in a direction opposite to the direction 01 the other arm, whereby the button is securely held on. the cloth and can be removed and refastened as often as desired.

An en'ibodiment of the invention is illustrated, by way of example, in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a front-elevation,

Fig. 2 is top-plan-view,

Fig. 3 is a side-elevation,

Fig. 4 is a section on line A-B of Fig. 1.

Figs. 5 and 6 show in elevation and side-elevation, partly in section, the button inserted through the button-hole of a garment.

Fig. 7 illustrates how the button is fixed for example on the waist-band of trousers to hold the strap of braces.

The button consists of a disc-shaped top plate 1 with. two pins 3, l bent at right angles and arranged so that either both pins or one of the same can be rotated around the axis of the inner arm. In the form of'construction illustrated only the pin 3 is rotatable, the pin t being fixed. The rotatable pin 3 is longer than the fixed pin 4. The inner ends of the pins 3, a are mounted each in a plate 5, 6 respectively and they traverse a disk 7 and a projectlon 9. The rotatable pin 3 is fixed on a plate 5 semicircular at the upper end (Fig. 1) so that a rectangular plate 6 in which the pin 1 is fixed forms an abutment for the plate 5 of pin 3 1n the two extreme positions of said pin. The pin 3 can be turned from the position shown in Fig. 1, parallel to pin 4, through 180 so that it projects in a direction opposite to that of the pin at. The pins 3 and -l are riveted in the plates 5, 6 respectively and their heads 3 and 4t bear against an inner disc 2 preferably 01 steel and resting against the inner surface of thetop plate 1. The top plate 1 forms a casing and in the inner end of this casing a disc 7 is located on which an outwardly pie jecting element 9 is held by means of a ring 8. The disc 7 and ring 8 are secured in their ph sition in the top-plate or casing 1 by the inwardly flanged inner edge of the top plate 1. The plate (5 is secured to the disc 7 while the plate 5 is movably supported on said disc 7.

The elements 7, 8, 9 and the pins 3 and i are securely held in the top-plate 1 by this inwardly flanged end, the pin 3 being freely rotatable. The points 3" and 4* of the pins 3, t may be slightly curved upward or in outward direction as shown in Fig. 3 so that they stick into the cloth 011 which the button has to be fixed.

Fig. 6, which is a section on line Gl) of Fig. 5, shows how the points 3", t" of the pins penetrate into the cloth.

Figs. 5 and 6 .how how the button is fixed in a buttonhole 10 of a garment 10. The pins 3 and 4 are standin transversely to the buttonhole 10. This kind of fixationis used for instance for fastening a badge in a buttonhole. As the pin-points 3", r penetrate into the cloth 1O accidental rotating of the button 1 and automatic detaching from the buttonhole 10 are prevented.

WVhen the detachable button is to be fixed for example on the waistband of trousers, the pins 3 and 4 (Fig. 7) can be brought into the position transverse to the button hole 12 of the strap 12 ol the braces or the like, the button-hole oi the strap acting only on one of said pins. By having the rotatable pin 3, or at least its right angled projection, of greater length than the similar projection of the fixed pin 1, it is apparent that the pin to be turned in fixing the button in place in the manner described can be readily seen and operated without exerting any turning strain on the fixed pin, which might occur it the pins were in d is tinguishable.

The improved button may also be used as brooch, as tie pin or the like, as means for fastening belts, shoes, gloves, collars, garters and bands.

I claim 1 r 1. A. detachable button including a disc forming the main plate of the button, two pins each bent at right angles beyond the disc the one fixed in said disc and the other onerotatably mounted in the same, whereby the pins may be arranged with their right angled lengths projected in the same or in opposite directions relativeto their connection with the disc.

2. A detachable button including a disc forming the main plate of the button, two pins each bent at right angles beyond the disc the one fixed in said disc and the other one rotatably mounted in the same, whereby the pins may be arranged witlrtheir right angled lengths projected in. the same or in opposite directions relative to their connec- 15] tion with the disc, the points of said pins being slightly curved in order that they may "penetrate into the cloth of'the garment.

J 3. Adetachable button including a disc forming the top-plate of the button, a rectangular plate having a semi-circular upper end movably mounted in said disc, a pin bent at right angles beyond the disc fixed in said movably mounted plate, a second rectangular plate fixed in said disc so that it serves as abutment for said rotatable plate in both i extreme positions of the same, and a shorter pin fixed in saidstationary plate and bent at right angles'beyond the disc.

LjA detachable but-ton including a discshaped top-plate the rim' of which is bent downward and then flanged inward so that an open casing is formed, a steel-disc on the inner surface of said top-disc, a rectangular plate having a semicircular end movably mounted in said topv plate, a pin bentlat right angles fixed in said movable plate, a

' second rectangular plate fixed in said top plate so that it serves as abutment for said movable plate in both extreme positions of the same, a second pin bent at right angles and terminally fixed in said second rectangular plate and heads of the pins bearing against said steel-disc.

' 5. A detachable button including a discshaped top plate having a downwardly bent rim to form an open casing, a disc closing the open end of the casing, a second disc secured against the inner surface of the top of the. casing, a rectangular plate secured on said closing disc, a pin fixed in said rectangular plate with its head bearing between the plate and second disc, said pin extending through the closing disc and being bent at right angles beyond said disc, a rectangular plate movably supported on the closing disc immediately adjacent the fixed rectangular plate, a pin mounted in the lnovably supported rectangular plate, the head of the pin bearing frictionally against the second disc and being bent at right angles beyond the closing disc, and an extension carried by the top plate through which the pins are projected for a guiding influence on the pins.

6. A button, pins mounted therein and having right angled portions beyond the button with terminal points, the pins being mounted for relative rotation to permit their pointed ends to be arranged in the same or opposite directions to provide in one instance for the convenient application of the button and in the other instance to hold the button against removal.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

GEORG FRANK. 

